Straight to my FAVES Deb! You’ve been busy posting fabulous picks. I haven’t commented, but I hqve noticed!
I’ve been collecting yellows because they are SO summery. I was going to mix them with greys or browns, but they look TOO good with blues! I now have a plan!

These flowers are driving me crazy to do picks. Because they have such a graduated color they match Czech glass so well. This one I thought of last night as I was trying to go to sleep.
Cant wait to see a finished project.

I just commented on the crazy convo you and Asia and Becky had… about painting the flowers. I think the key is getting a thin enough consistency to blend the colors, but just thick enough to stick to the lucite.

Well yes roughing the surface up gives it tooth. Its recommended when painting anything with a slick surface, such as laminate so, it would probably help. Hmmm good catch Julie. Now you just have to be as artistic as Heather French to achieve that look. Here’s the thing, supplies (paint etc), product (flowers), time equals you spending probably more than just buying the flowers

When I was a kid my mom found a glaze that worked on eggshells and I learned to make blown out eggshells with cut out windows and little scenes inside. I think that is the kind of paint that would work but I think it could be concocted with alcohol inks and glaze. I had a lot of organic chemistry classes and I might actually put it to some use here.

I have some flowers I got cheap cheap cheap at Michaels. More calla lily shaped though. I’m.thinking I could make them look more attractive if I could just get some silk leaves attached to them and stamens of seed beads. Plus over the top bead caps.

But if we crack this nut, Deb, we can learn to do it as well over time. Heather had to practice, too. I wouldn’t want to horn in on her business, but all methods can be learned. It’s the artistic gift that you can’t copy so she will be safe from me.

Deb, love the pick, but let just get to the technique, I tried with the alcohol inks and it works much better, but it is hard to control it because it is more liquidy , then I went to the Golden paints site, they have this glazing gel that one can use to tin the paint for many different techniques including trompe l’oeil which gives the depth to the picture, HF had been an watercolor artist before she started VM. Where is Frida she should know. I run out of my ugly grey bellflowers have to get some, will try my local Michaels, but I don’t remember seeing them there.

Directly into my faves and already have a few lucite pieces in my bag but so expensive. Love it, Deb! I have been out for awhile and am trying to catch up on picks so please do not be offended if I have missed a few.